#transparency RT @AriNatter: I am being detained by Capital Police for trying to ask @EPAGina a question after her remarks.  nickjuliano (@nickjuliano) March 28, 2014 Natter was detained while covering the American Council On Renewable Energy conference, where McCarthy spoke. Also speaking at the conference was Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a staunch supporter of green energy who regularly takes the Senate floor to sound the alarm on global warming.

McCarthy spoke about renewable energy issues, including the EPAs proposal to cut back the amount of ethanol refiners are required to blend into gasoline annually to avoid economic calamity. She also talked about the Obama administrations view that energy and environmental policy go hand in hand.

The energy issues and the environmental issues we are facing today are really two sides of the same coin, she said.

Natter was eventually let go after police checked with their superiors and ran a background check on the reporter, determining he had the proper press credentials.

After consulting with his superiors and running a background check the police have let me go.  Ari Natter (@AriNatter) March 28, 2014 .@alexcguillen: Not the first time I have been threatened with arrest for doing my job as a reporter. Probably not the last either.  Ari Natter (@AriNatter) March 28, 2014

You know, unless the reporter actually assaulted or impeded this person (you know that they do this on occasion), I can honestly say that I would be every bit as angry about this if she worked for Greenpeace’s newsletter as I would be if she worked for the WSJ.

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posted on 03/28/2014 11:43:16 AM PDT
by The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")

Ari, Ari,....Ari when are you ever going to learn? Little people do not question the kings court! I know that you as a reporter thought that you were just above the masses but,...what can we say? Try not to let this happen again. By the way, seen your dog lately?

...and let's see, what are the criteria and hoops through which one needs to go even to get such credentials? Does one have to be on an 'A' list, with no IRS-found, right-wing connection?

If anyone at all takes away such credentials, say for such a misunderstanding as the current situation, will such a reporter be excluded from government-related news reporting for the duration? That would certainly further media corruption, eh? (Until the backlash finally hits, of course. :) )

Actually very good. The more media people are harassed, spied upon, repressed, shut down and shut up - the more they’ll wake up. Some will wake up, others not unless they’re frogmarched in front of the firing squad.

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posted on 03/28/2014 12:04:34 PM PDT
by little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)

The press has cut their own throats by being so supine before BO. These guys better get used to this. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch. Like to see how they present this to the J school classes.

It has always baffled me that the press is so lock step in their gutless pandering to BO and Dems. Forget honor and integrity. I would have thought that mere ambition would have driven someone to dig a little deeper, to say something different just for the distinction of saying something different.

And it is not like the drive by media world is so universally financially successful. Mere financial survival would suggest that someone try to say something besides the party line, if for no other reason than to see a few more papers.

I bet if a lot of peasants who use propane to heat their houses knew that dearest Gina is one of the primary guilty parties in the price gouging this winter, they'd want to do a lot more than "ask her a question".

They'd probably want to beat her Watermelon @ss.

Remember, the farmers needed to burn a lot of propane to dry their bumper corn crop this fall, so that the corn could be used to adulterate & screw up the gasoline supply.

This caused the propane shortage.

Thanks, Gina, you Elitist Commie b*tch!

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posted on 03/28/2014 12:25:22 PM PDT
by kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))

This incident, if they even have a single shred of ethics left, should send a chill down the spines of the liberal news media reporters, not a tingle up their legs.

As of 12:00pm EDT on January 20, 2009, the only thing this incident and others like it evoke from liberal news media reporters is a rolling of the eyes that the reporter in question would be so foolish as to not know how to properly conduct himself.

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posted on 03/28/2014 12:26:30 PM PDT
by Dahoser
(Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)

A longtime civil servant, McCarthy held the position of assistant administrator, U.S. EPA from 2009 to 2013. Prior to 2009, she was commissioner, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, 20042009. She has held several top positions in the civil service of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including deputy secretary, Massachusetts Office of Commonwealth Development, 20032004 and undersecretary for policy, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, 19992003.[8]
McCarthy graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology in 1976. In 1981 she received a joint Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy from Tufts University.[9][8]
A Boston native, McCarthy has worked on environmental issues at the state and local levels and has developed policies on economic growth, energy, transportation and the environment.[9] In her twenty-five years in public administration, she has been an environmental advisor to five Massachusetts governors, including former Governor Mitt Romney. From 2004 to 2009 she was commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. In this capacity she implemented a regional policy to trade carbon credits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.[5]
According to some observers, Obama’s selection of McCarthy confirms that he is serious about battling climate change. Daniel Fiorino, director of the Center for Environmental Policy at American University, says: “Her nomination signals that the president really wants to deliver on his State of the Union objectives to take serious action on climate change.” Despite speculation that this will affect Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline, Fiorino believes that this doesn’t affect the dynamics of the Keystone decision significantly as other considerations are paramount, but adds: “... she knows air and climate issues very well and she’s a very strong environmentalist.” The EPA is one of the federal agencies that will advise the Obama administration on the proposed pipeline, “a project that would carry millions of barrels of bitumen a week from Alberta’s carbon-intensive oilsands to the U.S. Gulf Coast”.[10]
She was the direct supervisor of convicted fraudster John C. Beale.[11]

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